OLDSMAR, Fla. – Saturday’s trifecta of stakes certainly was the day’s main attraction at Tampa Bay Downs, but earlier on the 11-race program, the stakes winner Nesso made her 2015 debut a spectacular one.

Punctuate, unraced since beating maidens in September, earned a spot in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes at seven furlongs on Feb. 1 with a six-furlong workout from the gate in 1:14 on Sunday.

Punctuate has familiar bloodlines. He is by the prominent stallion Distorted Humor, and is out of Peppers Pride, who was unbeaten in 19 starts in New Mexico from 2005-2008.

Punctuate is owned by Arnold Zetcher and trained by Bob Baffert.

“It looked like he went well,” Baffert said of the workout.

Big Macher, scratched from Saturday’s $150,000 California Cup Sprint, worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 on Sunday for the $200,000 Palos Verdes Stakes at six furlongs next Saturday.

Trainer Richard Baltas timed Big Macher in a minute, going the first three furlongs in 37 seconds, and the final quarter-mile in 23 seconds. Baltas timed Big Macher galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.

Mischief Clem won his first stakes in the California Cup Derby, a race won in 2014 by California Chrome.

California Chrome won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles in his next start, and the same $400,000 race on March 7 has been the subject of preliminary discussions between owner Craig Griffin and trainer Bob Hess Jr. for Mischief Clem.

“That would be tough,” Hess said. “The timing is good.”

Mischief Clem has won 3 of 6 starts and earned $366,380 for Griffin and his wife, Lorie.

ARCADIA, Calif.- Alert Bay and Mischief Clem could run in graded stakes later this winter after winning $250,000 stakes on the California Cup program at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Alert Bay extended his winning streak to five races in the California Cup Turf Classic at 1 1/8 miles on turf. The 4-year-old was scheduled to leave Santa Anita for trainer Blaine Wright’s stable at Golden Gate Fields on Monday. A decision on Alert Bay’s next start may not be made for another week, Wright said, but one option would be the $400,000 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf on March 7.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Dodging one storm that canceled training here Saturday and avoiding a second storm that will likely cancel training here on Tuesday, El Kabeir managed to get in an important five-furlong workout Sunday morning in preparation for the Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct on Feb. 7.

Working shortly after 9:30 a.m. on a freshly harrowed Belmont Park training track that would likely be termed “good,” El Kabeir breezed a solid five furlongs in 1:01.47, getting his final quarter in 23.72 seconds. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.86 under exercise rider Simon Harris.

CYPRESS, Calif. – California Chrome worked a mile in 1:41.40 at Los Alamitos on Sunday. The work was designated by track clockers as breezing, which is a rarity in Southern California. The designation means that California Chrome worked under minimal urging from jockey Victor Espinoza.

The 2014 Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old, California Chrome had his longest workout of the year on Sunday, and his second-to-last workout before a scheduled start in the $500,000 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 7.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Drayden Van Dyke, the champion apprentice jockey of 2014, had his first win as a journeyman Friday aboard the 3-year-old Ernest Shackleton.

Van Dyke, 20, may have a stakes horse in Ernest Shackleton, a candidate for turf stakes in March and April. Ernest Shackleton, imported from Ireland last fall, won for the first time in the U.S. on Friday. The colt is trained by Doug O’Neill.

Van Duke downplayed the move from apprentice to journeyman. Ernest Shackleton was the 199th win of his career.

“I’m just happy to win,” he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Firing Line, second Dec. 20 in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity, worked five furlongs in 1:00.60 Saturday.

Owned by Arnold Zetcher and trained by Simon Callaghan, Firing Line is a candidate for the $150,000 Robert Lewis Stakes at 1 1/16 miles Feb. 7.

The workout was slower than a five-furlong clocking by Firing Line in 59.80 seconds Jan. 17, which Callaghan said was by design.

“He went strongly the week before so went a little on the easy side,” Callaghan said. “He was nice and relaxed, and that’s the main thing.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Texas Red is scheduled to have two starts in February as he resumes his career following a win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita last November.

On Saturday, trainer Keith Desormeaux said Texas Red will start Feb. 1 in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita and could make a relatively quick turnaround for the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes at 1 1/16 miles Feb. 21 at Fair Grounds.